This year’s figure is lower than that of the last presidential elections, in 2021, when the abstention rate was 54.55% nationwide.
The abstention rate for these presidential elections is between 35,6% e 40,6%. Voter turnout for this Sunday’s elections was higher than in the last presidential elections.
In the last presidential elections, during the pandemic period and Covid-19in 2021, the fee of abstention was 54,55% in national territory, the year in which Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa was re-elected.
Previously, the highest abstention rate in presidential elections after the 25th of April was that of re-election of Aníbal Cavaco Silvain 2011, when 53.56% of voters did not go to the polls.
A most competitive presidential race ever took place in 1980, in reelection of general António Ramalho Eanes com 84.39% voted and only 15% abstained.
Abstention rate in presidential elections in Portugal:
- 1976: 24,6%
- 1980: 15,8%
- 1986: 21,8
- 1991: 38%
- 1996: 33,6%
- 2001: 50%
- 2006: 38,5%
- 2011: 53,5%
- 2016: 51,3%
- 2021: 54,55%
